Dagoba - Post Mortem Nihil Est (2013) - Vas-y, vas-y, vas-y, vas-y, vas-y! - 90% (26/05/14)

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Officially, the French band Dagoba is classified as groove or industrial metal but the four guys from Marseille also have a clear melodic death metal and metalcore touch. For the purists that might now be discouraged, I can assure you that this band is...

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Dagoba - Post Mortem Nihil Est (2013) - Vas-y, vas-y, vas-y, vas-y, vas-y! - 90% (26/05/14)

Par kluseba

Officially, the French band Dagoba is classified as groove or industrial metal but the four guys from Marseille also have a clear melodic death metal and metalcore touch. For the purists that might now be discouraged, I can assure you that this band is...

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Children Of Bodom - Halo Of Blood (2013) - Finnish melancholy goes MZA - 72% (26/05/14)

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Finnish melodic death metal band Children Of Bodom is, without a doubt, one of the most controversial and famous metal bands around the globe. Many people claim that the band keeps releasing the same record all the time, with only minor changes between...

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Noein - Infection-Erasure-Replacement (2013) - An overambitious concept with exchangeable music - 52% (01/07/13)

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Noein is a quite unique newcomer band from Rouen in Upper Normandy, France that just released its first full length release entitled “Infection – Erasure – Replacement”. Musically, I would describe the band as a technical death metal band. The two women...

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Oroku Saki And The Foot - Support Gang Violence (2013) - A crazy and original fun ride through many genres - 79% (01/07/13)

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Oroku Saki And The Foot is not a Japanese band as you might think but a quite strange experimental death metal newcomer from Louisiana that includes elements of doom and progressive metal but also grindcore parts in its songs. The name is inspired by...

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Fragarak - Crypts of Dissimulation (2013) - Indian extreme progressive metal with potential - 69% (25/06/13)

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Here comes another obscure newcomer band that I would like to introduce to the open minded metal community all around the world: Fragarak is an atmospheric, but also technically driven, progressive death metal band that hails from New Delhi, India. The...

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Chaos Synopsis - Art Of Killing (2013) - Pitiless death metal with a few big surprises - 80% (21/02/13)

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Usually, I'm not at all into all too brutal metal genres such as death metal and that's why I hesitated to check out the Brazilian band Chaos Synopsis. The interesting concept about the lives and works of famous serial killers all around the world and...

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复活 / Resurrection - 国殇 / National Martyr (2006) - Great epics and convincing bonus tracks - 71% (07/02/13)

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复活 or Resurrection is an extreme metal band from Nanjing in the Jiangsu province. The band plays quite fast and pitiless speed or thrash metal with vocals that head for a blackened approach but also for loads of death metal moments at other moments. The...

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郁 / Die From Sorrow - 日落伊甸园 / Sunset Eden (2009) - Modern melodic death metal at its best - 96% (02/02/13)

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Die From Sorrow or 郁 is a melodic death metal band from Beijing that convinces quite a lot with its first official release in form of this four track EP. The five guys play very melody and hook orientated music with catchy but never too soft keyboard...

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颠覆M / Ego Fall - 蒙古精神 / Spirit of Mongolia (2008) - Folk majesty, gothic atmosphere, metalcore energy - 90% (03/12/12)

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Here comes another big surprise. I have never been at all into the metalcore genre and was quite surprised when I stumbled over the very convincing debut record of the rather unknown Chinese band 塔罗圣徒 or Tarot Saint a few months ago that mixed modern...

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